Vfw Easter Egg Hunt Prizes To Include 2 Bicycles, Doll

April 4, 1985|By Patti Brown

There will be a special guest at an Easter egg hunt this weekend -- the Easter Bunny. The Easter egg hunt for children ages 2 to 12 will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5405 on North Edgemon Avenue. Prizes include a girl's bicycle, a boy's bicycle and a Cabbage Patch doll.

The post auxiliary is celebrating its 10th anniversary Saturday with a free 8 p.m. dinner at the post home. A 7 p.m. program will explore the memories and honor the quartermaster, Mel Werner, with a roast and toast. The festivities are open to the public.

-- An Easter sunrise service will begin at 7:30 a.m. Sunday at Tuskawilla Park on Northern Way.

The service is jointly sponsored by Community Missionary Alliance Church, Grace Presbyterian Church, Lord of Life Lutheran Church, New Covenant Episcopal Church and New Life Fellowship Church. A breakfast will be held after the service at the Lord of Life Lutheran Church on Tuskawilla Road.

-- Tuskawilla Pioneer Garden Club's annual meeting will held at 10 a.m. April 19. The meeting will be at the home of Dorothy Harris, 20 Sable Court. Co-hostesses will be Janet Karnes and Helen Wolf. Members will vote for next year's officers.

Gwen Steer also will demonstrate flower arranging. Each member should bring a miniature arrangement of fresh flowers that expresses the spring color theme.

Dues are payable at this meeting.

-- Brownie Troop 860, which is sponsored by the V.F.W. auxiliary, and a Junior Girl Scout troop are raising funds for a May trip to Savannah, Ga. Savannah is the birthplace of Juliette Lowe, founder of Girl Scouts. The troops already have been working on the project by having a chicken dinner and selling baked goods.

-- Airman Ronald Traenkner, son of Ronald and Gladys Traenkner of 221 N. Alderwood St., has graduated from the U.S. Air Force missile electronic equipment course at Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois. Traenkner is scheduled to serve with the 7th Munitions Maintenance Squadron at Carswell Air Force Base in Texas.